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I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

I wanted to be a painter.

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a child when I was in high school, so I kind of had that work phase in my life.

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.